10 Common Bodybuilding Mistakes (part 1)

10 Common Bodybuilding Mistakes (part 1)

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Bodybuilding is no where near as complicated as most people think, and in fact most people over complicate when designing their routine. The really good news is that by simplifying your weight training approach, you can get much quicker and more permanent results, and youll be out of the gym faster.

In this article Im going to point out the 10 most common errors, so you can avoid them in your training.

1/ Working out too often
I recently saw an article in Flex magazine recommending a 6 days a week training program. This is complete lunacy. To build muscle you need to train hard enough to break the muscle fibres down, then rest and give the muscle a chance to grow. Muscles grow when you rest - fact. If you spend 6 days out of 7 in the gym, youll never give your muscles a chance to rest and grow. This leads nicely to the next point;

2/ Heeding the advice in mainstream bodybuilding magazines
Above is a classic example of the terrible advice that the glossy mainstream bodybuilding magazines give out. The edition of Flex I refer to had over 160 different products advertised in it. Most are for way overpriced and unnecessary bodybuilding supplements. If you get organised and set a proper diet up you wont need supplements.

Lets think about why you would take supplements - it can only be for a very few reasons;
Build muscle
Cut fat
Allow you to train more often
Build stamina
Now if a magazine promotes over 160 of these products, it follows that most of them will supposedly do the same thing for you. In that case, which of the 160 products are best? And why doesnt the magazine just promote the best product? Do they even care? I leave you to judge.

3/ Not training hard enough
Its not how often you train, its what you do when you train that counts. As mentioned in point 1, if you can train 6 days out of 7 my contention is that you really cant be training that hard, because if you were training hard theres no way you could do that many workouts in one week.

You certainly couldnt keep that level going very long. Trust me, youd get to the stage where youd be dreading every workout, and before very long youd give up, especially as youd not be seeing any meaningful results for your efforts.

4/ Doing too many exercises
Again referring back to the example workout routine in Flex, this routine had 15 exercises in one routine, which is way too much volume. There was 5 exercises for chest, 5 for shoulders, 2 for traps, and 3 for triceps. Total number of sets to be done was 40 excluding warm-ups! Total madness. How long do you think you could do that much volume six times a week?

It depends what your routine looks like and how far along you are into the training cycle as to what is the right number of exercises for you, but as a general rule, if youre doing more than half a dozen movements in a routine Id recommend you think about cutting back on volume.

If youre getting near your limit weights at the end of a training cycle, consider cutting out any isolation exercises youre currently doing - this will help recovery, and may allow you to train on for an extra week or two before ending the cycle.

5/ Doing the wrong exercises
Most amateur bodybuilders spend way too much time on isolation movements like tricep kickbacks, calf raises on the leg press machine, lateral raises and leg extensions, to name but a few. Always, always focus on basic compound exercises and keep gradually building the weights up, then you wont go far wrong.

Before you select an exercise for your routine, ask yourself this question;
How much total muscle does the exercise effect? Bicep curls for example, only affect the biceps. Squats effect all the major leg and hip muscles. Dead lifts effect pretty much the entire body.

Always think in terms of trying to increase the size of the biggest muscle groups as priority. The bonus of this approach is that it makes the smaller muscles easier to build - they seem to come along for the ride. But note that this doesnt work the other way round.

OK so thats 5 of the 10 most common bodybuilding mistakes covered - Ill cover the other 5 in part 2.

If you start implementing the advice in this article, you can transform your body quicker than youd believe - without being a slave in the gym to do it!










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